You love to see the classic "blue blood" rivalries throughout college basketball like UNC-Duke, Louisville-Kentucky, Indiana-Purdue and Indiana-Kentucky. Now we're going to have UCLA-Kentucky for a fourth straight year thanks to the basketball gods.
Kentucky and UCLA will meet for a 4th straight year now in 2017 with the CBS Sports Classic matchup. Their home-and-home ended this yr.
— Adam Zagoria (@AdamZagoria) December 13, 2016
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Without these pre-conference games and tournaments we may never have gotten this matchup again. It's unlikely each coach would have wanted to do another home-and-home since the schools are so far from each other and finding a neutral site would have proved difficult. However, we have CBS Sports to thank for something to look forward to next year.
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